Auction 45
Lot 015:
1. Booklet Shomrei HaChomot, “a collection of letters warning readers about the preservation of foundations of tzedakah of the Holy Land so that no changes will be carried out…”. Jerusalem 1913. Addressed to Rabbi Moshe Zevulun Margaliyot, head of the Vaad HaTzedakot of Israel in New York. 2. Booklet of “the program and takkanot of the Otzer HaChesed Keren Shmuel company…”. Jerusalem 1910. Letters from the geonim Rabbi Haim Berlin, Rabbi Kook, and the Ridbaz.
3. Rare booklet, “an open letter to our brothers in the Diaspora”, on the collection of money from Diaspora Jews for the Vaad Klali, to reinforce institutions after the riots “and to give only to the Vaad Klali”. In Hebrew and Yiddish, with a letter from Rav Kook. Jerusalem 1930.
4. 2 booklets “Pardes Etz Haim Keren Kayan to reinforce batei Talmud Torah…Etz Hayyim…”. Jerusalem 1930. On the idea of implementing the idea that arose to purchase land and to plant orange and etrog orchards, whose profit would be put to use reinforcing Etz Hayyim institutions. The booklet details the expenditures and includes letters from Rav Kook and the Grich Zonenfeld, who bought the first two trees. Colorful envelope, one of them has in the middle colorful (red) paper with the title: “What We Already Own, Thank God”—an update on the purchasing of an orchard in Kfar Saba. The second booklet has this content in a piece of paper attached after the title page—the National Library has it in the Rare Books section.
5. Booklet “Matzevat Zikaron Liste fun Yahrzeiten”, a table of memorial days of rabbis, businessmen, gabbayim, and more, by the “gemilut chassadim Otzer HaChesed Keren Shmuel Jerusalem.” No year of printing noted, Salomon printing. Apart from the envelope there is an additional title page, a picture of Rav Kook at the beginning as well. Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.
6. Small booklet from the “gemilut chassadim Otzer HaChesed Keren Shmuel Jerusalem”, with a picture of Rabbi Shmuel Salant on the title page. At the beginning are details of the organization’s goals in Yiddish, with letters later in the booklet in favor of the organization from Rav Kook and Rav Herzog and Rav Ostrovsky. In the middle is a picture, “the overall view of the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood”. On the back is the content in English.
7. Booklet with details of the activity of the “gemilut chassadim Otzer HaChesed Keren Shmuel Jerusalem” for 1905-6(?). Picture of Rav Kook and Rabbi Shmuel Salant. On the back is “the overall view of the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood”. Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.
8. Pamphlet Gvul Olam, a collection of letters from gedolei rabbanim, “who were appointed and finished with the united view to strengthen the severe prohibition from halacha…not to set funds from our brothers’ houses in the Diaspora for another mitzvah, only for the general welfare of strengthening the Yishuv of our brothers in the Land of Israel from the kupot of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes.” Only edition, Jerusalem 1903. Signed by: Rabbi Haim of Volozhin, Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanan Spector, Rabbi Shmuel Salant, the Aderet, and many more. National Library has it in the Rare Books section.
Total of 9 rare items in very good condition.
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